Luke Harding – Frontline Club

Akhmed Zakaev – In Conversation with Luke Harding

Vaughan Smith — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 15:21:18 +0000

Join Akhmed Zakaev, dissident and Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic’s government in exile, in conversation with Luke Harding, Foreign Correspondent at The Guardian, on the subject of Zakaev’s recent book, Subjugate or Exterminate!: A Memoir of Russia’s Wars in Chechnya.

City 40: film lifts veil on secretive nuclear town

Jonathan Bucks — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 07:09:47 +0000

On Tuesday 14 June, a packed-out Frontline Club hosted a screening of the acclaimed documentary City 40 followed by a Q&A with the film’s director Samira Goetschel and Guardian journalist Luke Harding. The film centres on the Russian city of Ozersk, or City 40, a secretive town surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards that […]

BookNight with Luke Harding

Vaughan Smith — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 19:30:34 +0000

For April's members' BookNight, we are delighted to welcome Marina Litvinenko and Luke Harding on the release of his new book, A Very Expensive Poison. 1 November 2006. Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies in Russia. Based on the best part of a decade's reporting, as well as extensive interviews with those closest to the events, Luke Harding's A Very Expensive Poison is the definitive inside story of the life and death of Alexander Litvinenko.

FULLY BOOKED Russia – A mafia state?

Millicent Teasdale — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:00:00 +0000

In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for The Guardian. Not long after, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB, broke into his flat. He was followed, bugged, and even summoned to Lefortovo, the FSB's notorious prison.

Luke Harding will be joined by a panel at the Frontline Club to discuss his experiences as The Guardian's Moscow correspondent and what they tell us about Russia today.

What’s coming up at the Frontline Club

Julie Tomlin — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:40:35 +0000

Tonight’s event with Nawal El Saadawi, the veteran Egyptian feminist campaigner who yesterday recieved the Women of the Year Outstanding Achievement Award is sold out, but you can watch it online from 7pm. Next week we will be joined by the Guardian’s Luke Harding and the BBC’s Angus Roxburgh to discuss their experiences reporting from Russia and whether the country is a Mafia […]